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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2021-29986 (11.4 SRU 38.101.6)

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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2021-29986 (11.4 SRU 38.101.6)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
08/17/2021
Created
11/18/2021
Added
11/17/2021
Modified
02/17/2022

Description

A suspected race condition when calling getaddrinfo led to memory corruption and a potentially exploitable crash. *Note: This issue only affected Linux operating systems. Other operating systems are unaffected.* This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 78.13, Thunderbird < 91, Firefox ESR < 78.13, and Firefox < 91.

Solution(s)

  • oracle-solaris-11-4-upgrade-mail-thunderbird-78-14-0-11-4-38-0-1-101-3
  • oracle-solaris-11-4-upgrade-web-browser-firefox-78-14-0-11-4-38-0-1-101-3
  • oracle-solaris-11-4-upgrade-web-data-firefox-bookmarks-78-14-0-11-4-38-0-1-101-3

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